Open Registry Backup???

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Johnny J.

If this question is to be considered OT in that it's not specific VB, I
apologize in advance...

I have a feature in my program that works by tweaking registry settings. It
works fine on several computers I know of, but on ONE computer it doesn't
work probably.

To try to find out why, I made a backup of the registry of the "faulty"
computer. I've got it on my development machine now, but if I try to open it
using RegEdit, the program wants to merge the backup file with MY registry.
And of course I don't want that...

Does anybody know how you open and examine the contents of a reg file
without "installing" it?

TIA,
Johnny J.
 
Just to explain before somebody cries "You stupid idiot"....

I KNOW that it can be opened and viewed in notepad, but since it's a very
large file, I would prefer some tool that can parse it and display it in a
tree-like structure (like RegEdit does)...

Cheers,
Johnny J.
 
Johnny J. said:
If this question is to be considered OT in that it's not specific VB, I
apologize in advance...

I have a feature in my program that works by tweaking registry settings. It
works fine on several computers I know of, but on ONE computer it doesn't
work probably.

To try to find out why, I made a backup of the registry of the "faulty"
computer. I've got it on my development machine now, but if I try to open it
using RegEdit, the program wants to merge the backup file with MY registry.
And of course I don't want that...

Does anybody know how you open and examine the contents of a reg file
without "installing" it?

TIA,
Johnny J.
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It should be a text file that you can open with notepad.

Mike
 
I wasn't quick enough... ;-)

Thanks for the suggestion Mike, I know that, but I need something that
displays the data in a tree structure - otherwise it will be impossible to
navigate through such a large file...

Thanks
Johnny J.
 
Johnny said:
I wasn't quick enough... ;-)

Thanks for the suggestion Mike, I know that, but I need something that
displays the data in a tree structure - otherwise it will be impossible
to navigate through such a large file...

Thanks
Johnny J.
Click to expand...

Timing is everything!

Notepad++ is a little better in that it color code, and permits
collapsing of nodes. http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm.
For large trees though, I'm sure something must be available. I've just
not had a need to find one.
 
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